Affliction Quotes - Page 15

• Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it

  Mary Rowlandson

  Wish, Sometimes, Ready

  Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.104, Diderot Publishing

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• It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury thart till the afsltilions you lie under could do; your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; it is you that make your burden heavy, by struggling under it. Could you but lie quiet under the hand of God, your condition would be much easier and sweeter than it is.

  John Flavel

  Lying, Struggle, Heart

  "Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel".

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• Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Fighting, Drug, Wish

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• I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2011). “We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven”, p.298, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Mother, Spring

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.351

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• A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Thinking, Sorrow

  William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

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• At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life's school of affliction, graduating with honors.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, School, Men

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• From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spring, Sorrow, Glory

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• Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the majority of Muslims in this nation? My reading over the last few years is an unambiguous no. We are undergoing an affliction that many could not have imagined about a decade ago. Let us confront the ultimate horror now. To remain inactive at this moment is to betray our children and to consolidate the ongoing crimes against our humanity. We must take the battle to the enemy...We sent our children to school; we must bring them back to school.

  Wole Soyinka

  Children, Reading, School

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• Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Evil, Justice

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• When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.

  Simone Weil

  Pain, Mean, Space

  "Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)".

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• By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Thank You, Eye, Blessing

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• The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

  Wes Fesler

  Revenge, Fleeting, Emotion

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• It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

  Simone Weil

  Love, Fall, Soul

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.46, Routledge

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• Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value.

  Kenny Smith

  Self, Words Of Wisdom, Trying

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• A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions, not in spite of them. Afflictions be praised!

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Life, Blessing, Hands

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• There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

  Thomas Brooks

  Evil, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.36

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• Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Blood, Soul, Earth

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• Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Prosperity, Made

  William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.81

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• But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.

  Steve Almond

  Art, Real, Struggle

  "The New Yorker’s One Over 40" by Steve Almond, therumpus.net. June 14, 2010.

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• Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.

  Milan Kundera

  Bears, Should, Enjoy

  "Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

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• Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and undisturbedly in the face of afflictions from one's neighbor. Meekness is a cliff rising from the sea of irritability, against which all the that waves that strive against it break, but which is itself never broken.

  John Climacus

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.

  Marcus Eremita

  Christian, Men, Evil

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• In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

  Boethius

  Adversity, Men, Kind

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• He who willingly accepts chastening by affliction is not dominated by evil thoughts against his will; whereas he who does not accept affliction is taken prisoner by evil thoughts, even though he resists them.

  Marcus Eremita

  Religious, Taken, Evil

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